 I've been nominated for the Outstanding Contribution to Research at the OU. That was on account of my work developing and leading the development of the new field of animal-computer interaction research, which started when in 2011 I found the Animal-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the OU, which was the first worldwide of its kind entirely dedicated to investigating the relationship between animals and technology in their habitual contexts, designing technology to support animals in their activities, improve their welfare, and improve human-animal relations, but also, crucially, in developing animal-centered methods to design in technology for, but also with animals. So we have, since then, I have led a number of projects or supervised a number of doctoral projects and that includes projects, includes the, for example, these projects in which we have designed technology to support the work of mobility assistance dogs or medical detection dogs who might, for example, be trained to detect cancer in humans. I believe humanity is facing humanity, not only humanity, but humanity and the other living beings with whom we are sharing this planet are facing, you know, some critical challenges, for example, global warming, environmental deterioration, resource shortages, and widespread life-threatening disease. I think that there is a lot that technology can do to address these challenges, but it is imperative that we think outside the human box and in order, you know, in order to do that, I think inviting animals to the design table to help us see things from a different perspective is, you know, is the way forward.